Recent content by petershk

I think a problem with fundamental research is it's hard to know the value until long after. Lasers were pretty "useless" for a long time as was a lot of the internet. Of course much of it will never yield anything but how do you know in advance? Of course you could argue that we shouldn't do...

My 2016 model x has about 30k miles on it and I have t had any major problems myself. It's still by far the best overall car I've driven but the tech in other cars is rapidly catching up. I have a 3 on order but that was because the line was long and relatives were interested. They are not...

Took a quick look at the splits problem with C. It turns out that I had splits working correctly in the dev version but a difference in configuration made that part of the data gathering not function for the live version. Should be working now. That said, it created a very suspicious spike in...

Let me look into the splits thing. I tried splits but not reverse. As for the other questions. I didn't want to over promote. There was an old thread when I first introduced the program but it's too old to reply to. The idea was to have a simple way to claculate the earnings from dividends as...

Without knowing the details of what it is, it's hard to evaluate the risk/value. Generally I am pretty skeptical of special opportunities that involve paying higher interest that established/public mechanisms can pay. Even corporate junk bonds do not have adequate risk/reward in this climate...

Hi All. For those of you that used the divicalc.com tool that I put together a few years back, I spend a couple of days and got it working again. It's not battle tested, so if you find bugs, please let me know. For those of you who are interested what happened was that when Verizon bought...

Good morning party Firers! I haven't been on in a while but I'm in need of some advice. For some background, here's my financial situation and personal situation: Financial: Net Worth: ca. 6.8m Main house: 580k (no mortgage) Second/Investment/Future retirement house: 1.2m (870k mortgage)...

Agree with FlaGator. What you want to avoid IMO is making emotionally driven financial decisions based on lumpy changes in NW (up or down :) ). The best way I can think of is to first figure out what the asset allocation is (for me 65% equities, 28% bonds, 5% alternatives and 2% cash) and then...

Actually a helpful discussion for me :). I'm around 60% of the way to that but the journey has been uneven. I THOUGHT that 2m would be more money than I would ever need and then because of lucky stock options that number about doubled. Over the past few years it went up about another 50% (mostly...

I think without considering the complete financial picture it's hard to answer. About 5 years ago it became clear to me that my ISOs that I assumed would be worthless (as they always were before) would potentially be worth a lot. By a lot mean about 30x my then net worth. The liquidity...

To ERD's point. If you need $x/mo or year no matter what, and there's no tax benefit by choosing one account over another it makes no difference where it comes from. However, if you ARE flexible and in your mind $s spent in excess of dividends are more valuable and thus you'd change your...

I get about 230 miles/charge on my model X P90. I charge at night at about 25 mi/hour so for daily use I don't notice it vs. going to a gas station. I commute to work once a week about 60 miles in each direction. If I drive fast, or "have fun" it has a pretty big impact on the battery. Usually...

I have a Model X and love it. I think Tesla is a great company and I think Elon Musk has great ideas and ability to overcome huge obstacles. I don't now and don't plan on buying any stock, though. Why? Because I have no way of having a reasonable chance of predicting the value of the company...

Great discussion. To the original question. I've had this same experience the last few years. When you have "enough money" (whatever that is for you); every day at work is an opportunity to ask yourself "OK, I don't HAVE to do this... I don't WANT to be in this meeting... am I just an idiot?"...

Of course, the 2002-2007 bull ended really badly without that record upside so... ya know... who knows :P